BRIC Certificate of Achievement

BRIC & ACM, Anthony Riddle
BRIC Certificate of Achievement
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The Alliance for Community Media recognizes Glendora Folsom Buell for A Chat With Glendora the world’s longest running Public Access show. Thank you for life-long dedication. Presented on August 19, 2016 and signed by Anthony Riddle, Director of Community Media. Seal of Achievement.

About BRIC and ACM

BRIC (based in Brooklyn, NY) and the Alliance for Community Media (ACM) both champion, produce, and defend community-driven media, with BRIC specifically supporting the ACM-advocated Community Media Reinvestment Act. BRIC provides public access television, media education, and artist residencies (BRIClab), while the ACM represents local media organizations nationwide, advocating for community access to communication technologies.

Key Connections and Overlaps

  • Advocacy: BRIC supports the Community Media Reinvestment Act, an initiative pushed by the Alliance for Community Media to protect and fund local media.
  • Mission Alignment: Both organizations prioritize community interests, open access to media creation, and the importance of independent voices.
  • Local-National Structure: The ACM organizes nationally with regional boards (e.g., NorthEast Region), while BRIC operates as a major local hub for community media in Brooklyn.
  • Resources & Training: BRIC offers extensive media education,, workshops, and, production facilities, similar to the training and development resources provided by the ACM’s Foundation for the Alliance for Community Media.

About BRIC Arts Media

  • Location: Based at BRIC House in Brooklyn.
  • Focus: Contemporary art, performing arts, and community media (BRIC TV/Brooklyn Free Speech).
  • Opportunities: Provides, artist residencies, youth media fellowships, and, the, BRIC, Media, Share, grant, program.

About the Alliance for Community Media (ACM)

  • Role: A, professional, membership, and, advocacy, organization, for, community, media, (formerly, PEG, cable, channels).
  • Structure: Includes a 501(c)6 for lobbying and a 501(c)3 foundation for education.
  • Focus: Protects, local, media, rights, and, promotes, community-produced, content.